How are static arrays stored in Java memory?

Question

So in a language like C, memory is separated into 5 different parts: OS Kernel, text segment, static memory, dynamic memory, and the stack. Something like this:

Answer 1

The value of a is just a reference to an object. The array creation expression (new int[2]) creates a new object of the right size, and assigns a reference to a.

Note that static in Java is fairly separate to static in C. In Java it just means "related to the type rather than to any particular instance of the type".